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OBSEQUIES 


IN HONOR OF 

ANDREW JACKSON. 


EULOGIUM h 



GEORGE M. DALLAS, 

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VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 


ON THE OCCASION OF THE 

Jackson Obsequies at Washington Square, in the City 
of Philadelphia, 26th June, 1S45 : 


WITH A NOTICE OF THE 

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ON THAT DAY. 


PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRA 



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At a meeting of the Committee of Arrangement for the Jackson Obsequies, held 
at the County Court House on the 27th June, 1845, John F. Belsterling in 
the Chair, and William E. Lehman, Secretary, it was unanimously 

Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to request from the Hon. George M. 
Dallas a copy for publication of his patriotic and eloquent Eulogium on the death 
of General Andrew Jackson. 

The Chairman appointed the following persons a Committee in pursuance of the 
above resolution, viz:—Col. Samuel J. Henderson, Col. William J. Leiper, and 
Benjamin Mifflin. 


CORRESPONDENCE. 

Philadelphia, June 27,1845. 

Dear Sir :—The undersigned on behalf of the Committee of Arrangement, appointed 
to adopt suitable measures for demonstrating the respect of the citizens of the City and 
County of Philadelphia, without distinction of party, for the memory of Andrew Jackson, 
have been directed to request for publication, the favor of a copy of the eloquent Eulogium 
delivered by you on the 26th instant. 

While we feel particular gratification in discharging the duty assigned us, we avail our¬ 
selves of the occasion to assure you of the sincere pleasure it will afford us individually, 
in being permitted to communicate to the Committee that you accede to their wishes. 

Wit sentiments of regard and respect, we are your obedient servants, 

SAMUEL J. HENDERSON ,) 

WM. J. LEIPER, } Committee. 

BENJ. MIFFLIN, ) 

To the Hon. George M. Dallas. 


Philadelphia, June 50, 1845. 

Gentlemen:— The Eulogium on the deceased Patriot, pronounced at your request, was 
too hastily prepared, under peculiar circumstances, to merit the language your partiality 
applies to it. Nevertheless, I send you the copy you desire, and thank you cordially for 
your sentiments ofkindness. 

Truly and respectfully, your friend and obedient servant, 

GEORGE M. DALLAS. 

To Samuel J. Henderson, Win. J. Leiper, and Benj. Mifflin, Committee. 




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At a few minutes before three o’clock, the procession having entered 
the Washington Square, the Chief Marshal, Samuel J. Henderson, 
Esq., called the assemblage to order, when the Rev. Dr. Bethune 
rose and addressed to the Throne of Grace, the following appropriate 

PRAYER. 

Almighty and ever-living God, we bow ourselves in thy holy pre¬ 
sence, and adore thee our Creator, our Sovereign, our Judge. Blessed 
be the name of thine only beg'otten Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, that 
we may invoke thee as our Saviour, Sanctifier, and most merciful 
Father. Hear our prayer for his sake, and let thy Holy Spirit rest upon 
every heart in this assembly. Thou art the King, eternal, immortal 
and invisible, the only wise God. We, thy sinful creatures, are but 
dust before thee. With thee, one day is as a thousand years, and a 
thousand years as one day. Before the mountains were brought forth, 
or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting 
to everlasting, thou art God. Behold, our days are as an handbreadth, 
and our age is as nothing ; the fashion of this world passeth away; yea, 
man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Death hath entered into the 
world by sin, and death hath passed upon all men, because that all have 
sinned. In the morning we are like grass which groweth up ; in the 
morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down 
and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy 
wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our 
secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our doings are 
passed away in thy wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told. 
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason df 
strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, 
for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of 
thine anger? Even according to thy fear so is thy wrath. So teach us to 
number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 

We thank thee for the gift of thy well beloved Son, who hath brought 
life and immortality to light. We thank thee for his righteous life, 
his atoning death, and his glorious resurrection. Grant us, we be¬ 
seech thee, true faith in him, and a hearty repentance ; that we being 


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washed in his blood, and accepted through his intercession, may follow 
in his steps, joyfully bearing his cross; and when we leave this life, 
which is but a continual death, may appear without terror, before the 
judgment seat, and enter into life everlasting. 

It hath pleased thee, in thy righteous providence, to take from this 
world, and, as we trust, unto thyself, the soul of thy servant, in solemn 
mourning for whom we have this day gathered ourselves together. His 
earthly work is done; his body rests in the grave until that day when 
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and this mortal shall put on im¬ 
mortality. We thank thee, O God! for whatever good thou hast 
wrought for this land, by his patriotic valor, wisdom and zeal. We 
thank thee for the victories thou didst grant our armies under his 
command, over invading foes. We thank thee for all wherein thou 
didst guide his heart and hands, when President of these United States. 
We thank thee for the assured faith with which thou didst comfort his 
declining years, that thou hast through thy Son Jesus Christ most 
graciously forgiven all his sins, errors and infirmities. 

Now, Lord, we beseech thee to grant us, and all the people of this 
land, a saving knowledge of thyself, that we, being built upon thy 
truth, may preserve inviolate that inheritance of freedom which we 
have received from our fathers. May this nation be ever faithful 
to thee, obedient to their laws, loyal to their government, and just 
unto all men. Remove from us every vestige of oppression, and 
every stain of dishonour. Assuage the violence of party rancour. Suc¬ 
ceed by thy divine favour our industry, our enterprise, and our inqui¬ 
ries after truth. Bless abundantly with all grace and counsel, thy ser¬ 
vants, the President, and Vice President, of our confederacy; our Na¬ 
tional Congress, and Judiciary, whenever assembled, to make or 
administer laws ; the Governor, Legislature and Judiciary of this Com¬ 
monwealth, and those of every State in the Union; the Army, and the 
Navy, with all who are called to serve the interests of this land ; and 
especially, bless thou the People, under thee our true and rightful 
sovereign, that so our country may enjoy peace and prosperity, and 
thy name have continual praise. All this we ask, Almighty God, and 
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, not for our sakes who are most un¬ 
worthy, but in the name of Him whom thou hearest alway, and who 
hast taught us to pray, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be 
thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in 
heaven; give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses 
as we forgive those who trespass against us ; and lead us not into 
temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and the 
power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen ! 


The Hon. George M. Dallas then advanced, and in an impressive 
manner, and with a voice whose clear tones could be heard at the farthest 
verge of the vast multitude, delivered the following 



<£ulcigium. 

Fellow Citizens and Friends : 

The sorrows of a nation, on the loss of a great and good man, 
are alike confirmed and assuaged by recurring to the virtues and services 
which endeared him. While funeral solemnities, such as are now in 
progress, attest the pervading regrets of communities, and swelling tears 
betray the anguish of individual friendship ; while the muffled drum, 
the shrouded ensign, and the silent march of mingled processions of 
citizens and soldiery address their impressive force to the hearts of all, 
it is well to seek solace in remembrances which must brighten for ever 
the annals of our country, and which add one more to the list of names 
whose mere utterance exalts the pride, and strengthens the foundations 
of patriotism. 

At the epoch when, in September, 1774, the delegates of eleven 
colonies assembled at our Carpenters' 7 Hall, before the first gun was 
fired at Lexington in the cause of Western Liberty, or Washington was 
yet hailed as “General and Commander in Chief,” there could be seen 
in the wilds of the Waxhaw settlement in South Carolina, on a farm in 
dangerous proximity to Indian tribes, and clustering with two elder bro¬ 
thers around a widowed mother, a boy about eight years of age, in 
whose veins coursed the same gallant blood that shortly after gushed 
from the wounds of Montgomery into the trenches of Quebec: that 
boy—moulded in the spirit of those stern times, clinging with his whole 
soul to the American people, ripened into athletic manhood, enfeebled 
by toil, by disease, and by age —is just now dead ; and you have in¬ 
vited me to pronounce over his yet loose grave the tribute of your affec¬ 
tionate gratitude and veneration : to soothe you by reminding you of 
the attributes and exploits of one who lived through all your heroic 
history, and was himself an inseparable part of it—who was born on 
your soil when, in fact, it was a mere margin of Eastern coast, and has 
sunk into it when a continent—who knew you when but two millions 
of scattered, weak, dependent and disquieted provincialists, and yet saw 
you, ere he ceased to know you, an immense, united, powerful and 
peaceful nation! It is impossible on the present occasion, and with 
short notice, to do justice to a task so protracted, complicate and enno¬ 
bling ; but there are incidents and sentiments connected with the cha¬ 
racter and career of Andrew Jackson, with which his countrymen 
unanimously sympathize, and which his public obsequies seem as 
appropriately as irresistibly to call into expression. 

The stripling orphan, while mourning over the loss of kindred, 
smarting under wounds and imprisonment, and hourly witnessing some 
new cruelty committed upon friends and neighbors, imbibed, during the 
storms of our Revolution, a deep, uncompromising, almost fierce, love 
of country, that never lost its sway over his actions. It became to him 
an impulse as instinctive and irrepressible as breathing, and cannot but 
be regarded by those who trace his eventful existence, as the master 


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passion of his nature. He passed through the war of 1776, in all but 
that , too youthful for its trials;—nor was there ever a moment in his 
after being when this devotion can be said to have waned or slumbered 
in his breast. Such a trait, so pure, so ardent, so unvarying—as fresh 
three weeks ago as seventy years before—as prompt and eager amid 
the frosts of age, as when in the spring of life it first kindled at the 
voice of Washington—invokes, now that the door of his sepulchre is 
closed, undissembled and undissenting praise. It is this quality of 
moral excellence which forms the basis of his fame, as it was the stimu¬ 
lant to every achievement. From his fight under Davie with Bryan’s 
regiment of Tories, in 1780, when scarcely thirteen years of age, down 
to the close of his remarkable campaign in Florida, when fifty-two, and 
thenceforward through all his diplomatic conflicts with foreign powers, 
it shone with steady intensity. 

The peace of 1783 found him the only survivor of his family, left as 
it were, alone, to face the snares of the world uneducated and still a 
boy. His small patrimony melted away, before he could check the 
reckless and prodigal habits to which he had been trained by eight 
years of wild and desperate strife. There was no one to counsel or to 
guide him ; no one to inculcate lessons of prudence, no one to reclaim 
him for the paths of useful industry and of restored tranquility. But 
Jackson wanted no one. At this, perhaps, the most critical period of 
his life, the “iron will” subsequently attributed to his treatment of 
others, was nobly exercised in governing himself. Energetically enter¬ 
ing upon the study of the law, the native force of his intellect enabled 
him, soon after attaining his majority, not merely to preserve his per¬ 
sonal independence, but to carve his way to recognized distinction. The 
sphere of his professional practice, the Western District of North Caro¬ 
lina, now the State of Tennessee, exacted labors and teemed with 
dangers such only as a resolution like his could encounter and surmount. 
Infested with enraged Cherokees and Choctaws, its wilderness of two 
hundred miles, crossed and recrossed by the undaunted public solicitor 
more than twenty times, enured him to fatigue, to the sense of life con¬ 
stantly in peril, and to the attacks and artifices of savage enemies whom 
he was destined signally to subdue and disperse. It cannot be necessary 
to pursue these details further;—no doubt it will be recollected that after 
aiding to form a Constitution for the State he has illustrated, General 
Jackson at the age of thirty became her first and only representative in 
Congress; was almost immediately transferred, in November, 1797, to 
the Senate of the United States, and, unwilling to prolong his legislative 
service, became a Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. In all 
these elevated stations, and especially in the last, his sagacious mind, 
directed by motives at once pure and lofty, and sustained by a spirit of 
unconquerable firmness, has left monuments of practical wisdom and 
usefulness, in maintaining the rights and ameliorating the condition of 
his countrymen, which time cannot efface. 

When the prolonged aggressions of Great Britain upon the maritime 
rights, commerce, and honor of America, prompted, in 1812, a declara¬ 
tion of hostilities, our Hero, though watchful of events and keenly alive 
to their bearing, had retired from public activity and was engaged in the 


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calm pursuits of agricultural life. That signal sounded with welcome, 
in his seclusion, and summoned him to a deathless renown. It came to 
his quick ear like a long-wished-for permit to avenge the wrongs and 
re-establish the sullied name of those for whom he was ever ready to 
sacrifice, without stint, his repose, his fortune, and his blood. The 
war-cry of his country scarcely vibrated on the breeze ere he echoed it 
back as a music with which every chord of his soul was in unison. In 
less than a week, leaving his plough in its yet opening furrow, and his 
ripe harvest drooping for the sickle, he stood equipped and eager, in 
front of two thousand five hundred volunteers, awaiting orders from the 
chief executive ! 

I must not, I dare not, quit the singleness of my subject, to indulge in 
reminiscences but partially connected with it, however alluring. Yet 
had the great and generous champion whom we lament a host of asso¬ 
ciates, competitors with him in the proud struggle of which should risk 
most, suffer most, and achieve most, in exemplifying the prowess, 
securing the safety and exalting the reputation of their country. That, 
indeed, may be considered as in itself an ample eulogium upon human 
merit, which depicts him as in the van of a roll emblazoned by such 
names as Scott, Harrison, Brown, Shelby, Johnson, Gaines, Ripley, 
Hull, Decatur, Perry and McDonough. Most of these have gone to 
graves over which are blooming, in unfading verdure, the laurels our 
gratitude planted:—none of them can present to posterity a title to im¬ 
mortal honor more conclusive than that involved in having shared with 
Jackson the glories of 1812. 

There are some fields of public service from which ordinary patriotism 
not unusually recoils; and of this kind is military action against the 
comparatively weak yet fierce and wily tribes of savages still occupying 
parts of their original domain on our continent. Unregulated by the 
principles of civilized warfare, Indian campaigns and conflicts are ac¬ 
companied by constant scenes of revolting and unnecessary cruelty. 
Neither age, nor sex, nor condition is spared; havoc and destruction 
are the only ends at which the tomahawk, once brandished, can be 
stayed. In exact proportion, however, to the horrors of such a system, 
is the necessity of protecting those of our people exposed to it by the 
most prompt and decisive resorts. When in the midst of a great struggle 
with an European monarchy, the frontiers of Georgia and Tennessee 
were suddenly assailed by the ferocious Creeks, all eyes turned, appeal¬ 
ing with confidence, for security to him who was known to the foe 
themselves by the descriptive designations of “Long Arrow” and 
“ Sharp Knife.” No one, indeed, ever exhibited in higher perfection 
the two qualities essential to such a contest—sagacity and courage. The 
sagacity of General Jackson was the admiration of the sophist and the 
wonder of the savage; it unravelled the meshes of both, without the 
slightest seeming effort. Piercing through every subtlety or stratagem, 
it attained the truth with electrical rapidity. It detected at a glance the 
toils of an adversary, and discerned the mode by which those toils could 
best be baffled. His courage was equally finished and faultless— 
quick, but cool, easily aroused, but never boisterous ; concentrated, en¬ 
during, and manly. No enemy could intimidate, no dangers fright him; 


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no surprise shook his presence of mind, as no emergency transcended 
his self-control. The red braves of the wilderness confessed that in 
these, their highest virtues, General Jackson equalled the most cele¬ 
brated of their chiefs. Invoked to the rescue, he rushed from a bed of 
suffering and debility, among the terrified fugitives, addressing them 
with brief but animating exhortation:—“ Your frontier is threatened 
with invasion by the savage foe. Already are they marching to your 
borders with their scalping knives unsheathed to butcher your women 
and children. Time is not to be lost. We must hasten to the frontier, 
or we shall find it drenched with the blood of our citizens. The health 
of your General is restored;—he will command in person.” It was in 
the progress of this expedition, in regions at once desolated and unpro¬ 
ductive, that his patient and persevering fortitude overcame obstacles of 
appalling magnitude;—and here it was that with touching kindness, 
when suffering the cravings of famine, he offered to divide with one of 
his own soldiers the handful of acorns he had secretly hoarded ! The 
three victories of Talladega, Emuckfaw atid Enotochopco, purchased 
with incredible fatigue, exposure, and loss of life, are not only to be 
valued in reference to the population and territory they pacified and re¬ 
deemed, but as having disclosed, just in time for the crisis of the main 
war, the transcendent ability and fitness of him who was destined to 
stamp its close with an exploit of unrivalled heroism and consummate 
eneralship. 

Shall I abruptly recall the Battle of New Orleans ?— recall did I 
say ? Is it ever absent from the memory of an American ? Mingled 
indissolubly with the thought of country, it springs to mind as Ther¬ 
mopylae or Marathon when Greece is named. He who gave that 
battle, with all its splendid preliminaries and results, to our chronicles 
of national valor, may cease to be mortal, but can never cease to be re¬ 
nowned. He may have a grave, but, like the Father of his Country, 
he can want no monument but posterity. 

The judgment of the world has been irreversibly passed upon that 
extraordinary achievement of our republican soldier. Analyzed in all 
its plans, its means, its motives, and its execution—the genius that con¬ 
ceived, the patriotism that impelled, the boldness that never backed, nor 
paused, nor counted, the skill which trebled every resource, the activity 
that was every where, the end that accomplished every thing—it was 
a master-piece of work, which Caesar, William Tell, Napoleon, and 
Washington, could unite in applauding. Even the vanquished, soothed 
by the rriaignanimity of their victor, have since laid the tribute of their 
admiration at his feet. For that battle, in itself and alone, as now passed 
into the imperishable records of history, an exhaustless fund of moral 
property, our descendants in distant ages will teach their children, as 
roism from illustration and example, to murmur their 

fellow citizens, with perhaps unnecessary length, upon 
the martial merits of the deceased. I have done so, because these merits 
are incontestable, and form, apart from every other consideration, an over¬ 
whelming claim to the veneration and gratitude we are now displaying. 
To me personally, as you all know, it would be alike consistent and 


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natural to go much farther; but, entertaining a real deference for the 
sentiments of others, I should be unable to pardon myself if, on an 
occasion so peculiarly solemn, a single word fell from my lips which 
did not chime with the tone of every bosom present. The time has not 
come, and among a free, fearless, and frank people, such as you are, it 
may possibly never come, when the civic characteristics of Jackson, 
during his chief magistracy of eight years, can be other than topics of 
sincere difference of opinion. 

Springing, however, directly from what I have considered as the great 
root of his public services, is at least one branch of his Executive policy 
and action that need not be avoided. If, as a Revolutionary lad, he 
clung to the cause of the Colonists;—if, as a soldier, he knew no 
shrinking from his flag;—as a President of these States, he stood, 
without budging, on the Rock of their Union. It seemed as if, to him, 
that was hallowed ground, ungenial to the weeds of party, identical 
indeed with Country. Count the cost of this Confederacy, and he was 
scornfully silent; speak of disregarding her laws, and his remonstrances 
were vehement; move but a hair’s breadth to end the compact, and he 
was in arms ! On this vast concern, involving, directly or remotely, all 
the precious objects of American civilization, his zeal was uncompro¬ 
mising, perhaps as unrefining and undiscriminating as his convictions 
were profound. The extent of our obligation to him in regard to it 
cannot well be exaggerated. Possessing in his high office the oppor¬ 
tunity, he gave to his purpose an impetus and an emphasis that will 
keep for ever ringing in the ears of his successors— “The Union must 
and shall be preserved /” 

Such was the hero we mourn ! With a constitution undermined by 
privations incident to his military labors, and a frame shattered by 
disease, he had retired to the seclusion of the Hermitage, long and pa¬ 
tiently awaiting the only and final relief from suffering. It came to him 
on the evening of the 8th instant, in the centre of his home’s affectionate 
circle, while his great mind was calm and unclouded, and when his 
heart was prepared to welcome its dilatory messenger. Yes ! yes ! he, 
on whom for half a century his country gazed as upon a tower of 
strength—on whom she never called for succor against the desolating 
savage, without being answered by a rushing shout of “ onward, to the 
rescue /”—who anticipated her invading foes by destroying them ere 
their foot prints on her soil were cold—he, the iron warrior, the re¬ 
proachless patriot, has ceased to be mortal, has willingly made his single 
surrender—the surrender of his soul to its Almighty claimant! 

It may almost be said that General Jackson was constituted of two 
natures, so admirably and so distinctly were his qualities adapted to 
their respective spheres of action. I have portrayed, hurriedly and 
crudely, his public character—let us for an instant, see him, on one or 
two points at least, in the other aspect, and perhaps we may thence 
catch the secret of his sublime and beautiful death. The rugged exte¬ 
rior which rough wars in our early Western settlements would naturally 
impart, was smoothed and polished in him by a spirit of benevolence 
deeply seated in his temperament. In social intercourse, though always 
earnest, rapid, impressive and upright, his friendship was marked by 
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boundless confidence and generosity; while in domestic life a winning 
gentleness seemed to spread from the recesses of his heart over the 
whole man, filling the scenes around him wilh smiles of serenity and 
joy. No husband loved more ardently, more faithfully, more unchange¬ 
ably—no parent could surpass the self-sacrificing kindness with which 
he reared and' cherished his adopted children—no master could be more 
certain of reciprocated fondness than he was, when, as expiring, he 
breathed the hope of hereafter meeting in heaven to which he was 
hastening, the servants of his household, “as well black as white' 
The truthfulness of this picture is attested by all who were admitted to 
the sanctuary of his home—precincts too sacred, even on an occasion 
equally sacred, for more than this brief intrusion. 

But there was a crowning characteristic, from adverting to which 1 
must not shrink, though in the presence in which I stand. General 
Jackson was fervently, unaffectedly and submissively pious! Wherever 
he might be, and whatever his absorbing pursuit—wading heavily 
through the swamps of Florida, on the track of Hillishago ; speeding, 
with the swoop of an eagle, to grapple the invader, Pakenham; career¬ 
ing, at the head of his victorious legions, through throngs of admiring 
countrymen; in the halls of the Executive mansion ; or at his hearth 
in the Hermitage ; there and then, every where and always, though not 
ostensible, and never obtrusive, his faith was with him. But it was 
most closely and conspicuously with him as dissolution approached—it 
was with him to brighten the rays of his mind, to cheer the throbs of his 
heart, to take the sting from his latest pang, and to give melody to his 
last farewell! The dying hour of Jackson bears triumphant testimony 
to the Christian’s hope. 

Such was the Hero, such the Man we mourn ! 

Come then, my countrymen ! let us, as it were, gather round the de¬ 
pository of his remains ! From those who knew him, as it has been 
my lot to know him, the frequent tear of cherished and proud remem¬ 
brance must fall. To all of us it will be some relief to join in the simple 
and sacred sentiment of public gratitude : 

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest 
By all their country’s wishes blest! 

When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, 

Returns to deck their hallowed mould, 

She there shall dress a sweeter sod 
Than Fancy’s feet have ever trod ; 

By fairy forms their dirge is sung— 

By hands unseen their knell is rung;-— 

There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, 

To bless the turf that wraps their clay; 

And Freedom shall awhile repair 
To dwell a weeping hermit there ! 

The Benediction was then pronounced by the Rev. Mr. Greer, 
Chaplain of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, after which the assemblage 
dispersed. 


£I)C Jfuncral procession. 


The weather was propitious, and the crowded appearance of the streets, the dis¬ 
play of banners and military accoutrements, and the galloping of horses, at an 
early hour in the morning, betokened that considerable preparations were going on. 

By seven o’clock the Chief Marshal and Aids of the Civic Procession were busily 
engaged in arranging the formation of their several divisions, so as to get them into 
line with as little delay and confusion as possible. By eight o’clock, Major General 
Patterson, of the First Division P. M. and his Staff, were in motion, and the Mili¬ 
tary under his command were filing from various quarters into Broad street. Nine 
o’clock was the hour designated for moving, which is generally understood to mean 
from ten to eleven; but upon this occasion the Military line was formed, and the 
head of the Civic in motion, by about half past nine. 

The several divisions resting with the right upon Twelfth and other streets pre¬ 
viously designated in the orders of the chief Marshal, moved in their proper order, 
to the place of formation (Thirteenth and Spruce streets), and then upon the line of the 
route, until the left of the Civic line rested upon Thirteenth and Spruce, the right be¬ 
ing on Fifth and Vine. The Civic line being thus formed, a halt was ordered by the 
Chief Marshal, the whole line having been arranged on the west and north sides 
of the streets, and the Military approaching the left of the line, at Thirteenth and 
Spruce streets, from Broad street, passed the entire length of it, and took the head 
of the Procession. By this movement, all who were in the Civic part of the pro¬ 
cession had an opportunity of seeing the entire Military under march. And again, 
when the head of the Military column reached Washington Square, a second general 
halt was made, the Military filed off upon the right side of the several streets which 
they occupied, and the civic column proceeded in front of them to the Square, thus 
affording the Military a full view of the Civic portion of the procession. The ar¬ 
rangements altogether were systematic and well executed. 

The Civic Procession reached the Washington Square precisely at 2 o’clock, 
and moving into the centre of it in the order of its line of march, the Orator of 
the Day, and the officiating Clergymen, took their seats upon the platform, to¬ 
gether with the Committee of Arrangement, the Judges of the Courts, several Re¬ 
volutionary veterans, and a number of distinguished citizens and strangers. Here 
the taste of the Committee had displayed itself in the handsome arrangements for 
the Orator and Officers of the Day. In the centre of this beautiful garden, and sur¬ 
rounded by the fragrance of the many varieties of trees and shrubbery which it 
contains, was erected a stand, handsomely covered with mourning. Over the plat¬ 
form was a canopy of black, with silk drapery handsomely and appropriately fes¬ 
tooned on every side. A gilt Eagle surmounted the front of the stand, and over the 
whole the American flag, covered with crape, waved from a staff near one hundred 
feet high. 

All party feeling was buried for the time. The stores throughout the city were 
generally closed; many private houses were arrayed in mourning. The flags of the 
shipping, those at the Navy Yard, State Arsenal, &c., were at half mast. All tie 
Newspaper offices, Hotels, &c., exhibited flags shrowded in black and other devi¬ 
ces of popular sorrow. The bells of the State House, Christ Church, St. Peter’s, 
St. John’s, and other churches, were muffled and tolled, as also those of the several 
Fire Companies. Half hour guns were fired during the day by a detachment of 
Jackson Artillerists in Penn Square. All the Public Buildings were put in mourn¬ 
ing. There was an entire suspension of business in all its departments during the 
whole day. After the conclusion of the services in the Square, and the various bo¬ 
dies of soldiers and citizens had time to repair to their houses, the city presented 
the quiet and orderly appearance of the Sabbath. 

The Military, composed of the Volunteer corps of the 1st Division, P. M., under 
command of Maj. Gen. Patterson, were an imposing and beautiful part of the Pro¬ 
cession, and exhibited as strong and effective a body of troops as in any Volunteer 
Department can be mustered together. The number of men under arms is estima¬ 
ted at about 3,000, and this without the aid of any troops from beyond the limits of 
the county of Philadelphia, except Capt. Martin’s corps of Montgomery County 
Dragoons, the second oldest corps of Volunteers in the State. 



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The following was the order of the 

©HWE(D FTOOTMOMo 

First Grand Division . 

This was preceded by SAMUEL J. HENDERSON, Chief Marshal, mounted 
and in full black dress, with black badges lettered in silver, accompanied by his 
special aids. 

Special Aids. —Col. Wm. B. Bradford, William S. Price, Esq. 

Aids. —Col. Robt. F. Christy, Andrew Miller, Caleb S. Wright, Col. Wm. J. 
Leiper, S. B. Kingston, Jr., Col. Thos. B. Florence, Thomas J. Woolf, Wm. E. Ash- 
mead, Thos. W. Duffield, Jr., William E. Lehman, Jr. Charles W^ilstack. 

Committee of Arrangement in Carriages. —J. F. Belsterling, Chairman; George 
L. Ashmead, A. P. Eyre, Benjamin Mifflin, James A. Campbell, Edward C. Dale, 
Richard Rush, Wm. E. Lehman Jr., George Erety, Robert Ewing, George Martin, 
John D. Hoffner, Richard Peltz, Adam Mintzer, Joseph Wood, Henry Welsh, S. B. 
Kingston, B. M. Evans, Penrose Ash, George Smith, Henry D. Lentz, C. G. Childs, 
James Magee, James H. Hutchison, James McAnall, Benj. F. Christy. 

A barouche, drawn by four white horses, containing Hon. George M. Dallas, Or¬ 
ator of the Day, and Rev. Dr. Bethune, followed; then the Judges of the Courts and 
Heads of Departments in Pennsylvania, in barouches and carriages. Hon. Jesse 
Miller, Secretary of the Commonwealth; Hon. James R. Snowden, State Treasurer; 
Representatives of Foreign Nations, and other distinguished strangers; Judges and 
Officers of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Attorney General of Pennsylvania; 
Judges and Officers of the several Courts of the City and County of Philadelphia, 
and of the other Courts of the State; the Reverend Clergy; Society of Cincinnati; 
surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution, and of the late War. The above 
were all in carriages. Dartmoor Prisoners on foot, a fine looking body of men, 
some colored ones among them. 

In several vehicles were the following gentlemen: Mr. Shields, of Alabama, 
Charge d’Affaires at Venezuela; Hon. Richard Rush, and a number of Senators and 
Members of the House of Representatives of the State from the interior counties. 

Officers of the Army and Navy followed on foot in uniform; Officers of the Gen¬ 
eral Government; Officers of the State Government; Officers of the City and County 
of Philadelphia; Trustees, Professors and Students of the University of Pennsylva¬ 
nia, and of the Medical Colleges; Officers and Members of the American Philoso¬ 
phical Society, Athenaeum, Philadelphia Library, Mercantile Library, Apprentices’ 
Library, Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Natural Sciences, Pennsylvania Histo¬ 
rical Society, Members of the Public Press, Controllers and Directors of the Public 
Schools, Principals and Teachers of the High and Grammar Schools of the City and 
County of Philadelphia, Members of the Bar, Physicians. 

After these came the Officers and Members of the Grand Lodge and the Subor¬ 
dinate Lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The Grand Lodge of 
Pennsylvania and Subordinate and Masonic Lodges were not out that we perceived. 
The Odd Fellows turned out in great numbers, dressed in their handsome regalia 
and carrying various devices and beautiful banners. Among them we noticed the 
following Lodges: Hope Lodge, Adam Lodge, very beautiful banner of Adam nam¬ 
ing the beasts and other animals. The Degree Lodge, No. 7, from Manayunk; 
Friendship Lodge, Amity Lodge, Lafayette Lodge, Philadelphia Lodge, German¬ 
town Philomathean Lodge, Rising Sun Lodge, General Marion Lodge, Franklin 
Lodge, Wayne Lodge, Andrew Jackson Encampment, a very handsome banner; 
Philadelphia Encampment,Mount Olivet Encampment, Morning Star Encampment. 
The Grand Lodge also carried a banner. The Odd Fellows mustered 1300 in their 
various lodges and encampments. 

After the Odd Fellows came the Sons of Temperance, preceded by the Marshal, 
Col. Florence. This was a remarkably fine-looking body of men, dressed in regalia, 
and carrying various emblematic devices. They numbered about 800 persons, and 
made a most imposing show, as they marched four abreast. Most of them were 
young men, and seemed to merit indeed the name of the Sons of Temperance. 

The following lodges and encampments were present in the line. United States, 
Crystal Fount, Chosen Friends, Spring Garden, Schiller, Hope, Chester, Good Sa¬ 
maritan, Adam, Manayunk, Hand-in-hand, Independence, Hancock, Charity, Robt. 


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Morris, Heneosis, Penn, Friendship, Fentonia, Amity, Lafayette, Philanthropic, 
Wildey, Philadelphia and Kensington Lodges. The Morning Star, Philomathean 
of Germantown, Rising Sun, Hermann, General Marion, Franklin, Wayne, Wash¬ 
ington, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Degree, Andrew Jackson, Mount Olivet and 
Philadelphia Encampments. The Grand Lodge was also present, and the members, 
clothed in their superb regalia, looked exceedingly well. 

Second Grand Division .— Wm. M. Meredith and Samuel Norris, 

Marshals. 

The Second Grand Division was composed principally of official persons in car¬ 
riages and barouches. The first was a very handsome barouche, drawn by two beau¬ 
tiful horses, in which sat the Mayor, Peter McCall, dressed in a full suit of black, 
and the Recorder, Richard Vaux, also in mourning. Then followed the officers of 
the several departments of the Corporation. 

Then came a remarkably neat-looking body of young men, composing the Liter¬ 
ary Societies, with handsome banners. Union Library Company, William Norris 
Library; Cabinet Makers’ Society, a large body; Citizens of Locust Ward, with the 
United States flag dressed in crape; Aldermen cf the City in barouches and car¬ 
riages; Citizens of the city generally, on foot. 

Third Grand. Division .— James Landy, Marshal. 

The Third Division was composed like the preceding one, mostly of carriages 
and barouches, containing the Mayor, Board of Commissioners and Officers of the 
Corporation of the District of the Northern Liberties, Aldermen and Citizens. 

Fourth Grand Division .— John H. Dohnert, Marshal. 

Police Magistrate and Board of Commissioners and Officers of the Corporation 
of Spring Garden; Mechanic Library Company, Citizens of the Fourth Ward, Fair- 
mount Fire Association. 

Fifth Grand Division. 

Composed of carriages and citizens on foot; Police Magistrate and Board of Com¬ 
missioners and Officers of the District of Southwark; Mariners’ Association, a very 
fine body of men on foot, with seven miniature ships handsomely rigged and shroud¬ 
ed in mourning; they also carried a beautiful banner with the motto—“Free Trade 
and Sailors’ Rights.” Aldermen of the District in carriages, citizens on foot 

Sixth Grand Division .— John Robbins, Jr., Marshal. 
Composed of carriages and citizens on foot; Board of Commissioners and officers 
of the Corporation of Kensington; James Page Library Company; citizens on foot. 

Seventh Grand Division .— John D. Neff, Marshal. 

Composed of Carriages and citizens on foot, Police Magistrate and Board of Com¬ 
missioners and Officers of the Corporation of Moyamensing, Aldermen and citizens. 

Eighth Grand Division. —Col. Henry Leech, Marshal. 
Principally composed of citizens from the surrounding counties and neighboring 
states, who had come into the city in large numbers. They were a very respecta¬ 
ble body of men, but we were unable to ascertain the places that the respective di* 
visions came from. 

Ninth Grand Division. —Wm. E. Ashmead, Marshal. 

Was principally composed of Firemen and Mounted Citizens. The first company 
which came was the Northern Liberty Engine Company, followed by the Neptune 
Hose company, with a handsome banner. The Vigilant Fire company came next, 
in very strong numbers, and made the finest appearance of any body of men in the 
line. The members wore an uniform citizen’s dress, with white beaver hats half 
craped; and in the body of the company was a cenotaph, drawn by four horses, upon 
which was inscribed the name of Jackson, and over which drooped a weeping wil¬ 
low. They also carried a handsome banner. 

After them came the following companies: Hope Hose, Assistance Engine, In¬ 
dependence Hose, Humane Engine, Weccacoe Engine, Moyamensing Hose, South¬ 
wark Engine, all displaying banners. 

Tenth Grand Division. —Col. J. W. Ditffield, Marshal. 

Mounted Citizens. 


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The following was the order of the Military part of the Procession, 
composed of the Volunteer Soldiery, fully uniformed, armed, and 
equipped. 


FIRST DIVISION, P. M. 

Major General, ROBERT PATTERSON. 

Lt. Col. Edwarjd Hurst, Division Inspector. 

Major John Miles, ? a • i a n 

J . w . 0 > Aides-de-Camp. 

Major William A. Stokes, 5 1 

Major Morton McMichael, Division Quarter-Master. 


FIRST BRIGADE. 

Brigadier General, GEORGE CADWALADER. 

Major Thomas T. Firth, Brigade Inspector. 

Captain H. J. Biddle, Aid-de-Camp. 

First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. 

Captain John Butler, Officers and Privates 34 

First Montgomery County Dragoons. 

Captain J. Martin, Officers and privates 40 

Second Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry. 

Captain Thomas Tustin, Officers and Privates, 43 

First Regiment of Artillery. 

Major R. K. Scott, commanding. Major Henry McCall. 

Commissioned and Non Commissioned Officers. —Adjutant, S. B. H. 
Vance; Paymaster, C. F. Beck; Quarter Master, C. W. Bender; Sur¬ 
geon, A. C. Hart; Assistant Surgeons, P. B. Goddard, C. Arrott; Ser¬ 
geant-Major, R. H. Wool worth; Quarter Master Sergeant, Henry Mee- 


ser. 10 

Junior Artillerists , Captain Drayton, officers and privates 46 

State Artillerists , Captain Clymer, “ 39 

Washington Greys , Captain McAdam “ 30 

Philadelphia Greys,* Lt. Hastings, “ 94 

Cadwalader Greys, Captain Morehead, “ 57 

National Artillery, Captain Murphy, “ 50 

Independent Guards, Captain Haswell, “ 44 

City Artillery, Captain K. Smith, “ 28 

Company /., Captain John Cadwalader “ 40 

First Regiment Volunteer Infantry. 

Colonel Joseph Murray. 


Staff. —Adjutant Nichols; Surgeon, T. C. Bunting; Assistant Sur¬ 
geons, John H. Weir, John C. Perry; Sergeant-Major,-Schriber, 6. 

Washington Blues, Captain Patterson, officers and privates, 33 

State Fencibles, Captain Page, “ 56 

“ 2d Company, Lt. Robinson, “ 47 

National Greys, Captain Fritz “ 37 


*This corps act as Flying Artillery, and had their battery of six pieces. Each 
piece and caisson was drawn by four horses. 



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Lafayette Light Guards, Capt, W. G. Smith “ 42 

Patterson Guards, Lt. Dougherty “ 67 

Washington Guards, Captain Colahan “ 59 

Union Fencibles, Captain Lee “ 52 

National Guards, Captain Kingston “ 69 

City Guards, Captain Hill “ 46 

Philadelphia Guards, Captain Budd “ 29 

Mechanic Rifle, Captain Mintzer “ 22 


THIRD BRIGADE. 

Brigadier General, HORATIO HUBBELL. 

Aid-de-Camp, J. Curran Philpot. 

Brigade Major, J. Sidney Jones. 

Brigade Quarter-Master, Mercer Jones. 

Brigade Inspector, Thomas Femington. 

Col. John Thompson, Col. George Lowry. 

Major James Bell, Major Henry E. Dermont, Major Pugh, 

Brigade Music, 20 pieces. 

Two Trumpeters. 

Cadwalader Cavalry, Capt. J. Sidney Jones; IstLt. F. H. Duffee, 
commanding; 2d Lt. E. Hicks Jones; Cornet, J. C. Oberteuffer. Offi¬ 
cers and privates, 38. 

Wayne Artillery, Captain Sami. Murdock; IstLt. Henry E. Smith; 
2d Lt. John T. Coleman; Sd Lt. Nicholas Tack. Officers and privates, 44. 

Harrison Artillery, Captain Joseph F. Tobias; 1st Lt. Geo. Mc- 
Cullon; 2d Lt. James Yorke; 3d Lt. James Carrick. Officers and pri¬ 
vates, 30. 

Independent Rifle , Capt. Thos. B. Florence; IstLt. Joseph H. Brad¬ 
shaw, commanding; 2d Lt. Hudson Greenleaf; 3d Lt. George Philip. 
Officers and privates, 30. 

Native American Rifle, Captain Matthew W. Berryman; 1st Lt. 
Peter Bouvier; 2d Lt. Andrew McClain, 3d Lt. J. Curran Philpot. Offi¬ 
cers and privates, 52. 

Regimental Surgeon, Dr. J. B. Stafford; Dr. W. J. Duffee, Assistant. 


SECOND BRIGADE. 

Brigadier General, A. L. ROUMFORT. 

Aid-de-Camp, John D. Miles, 

Quarter Master, Louis Pelouze. 

First Regiment County Volunteers, 124 th of the Line. 

Colonel, James Goodman; Lt. Colonel, Win. F. Small; Major, J. H. 
Oberteuffer; Adjutant, Tomlinson; Quarter Master, T. W. Binder. 

Washington Cavalry , Captain George Snyder; 1st Lt. J. H. Shel- 
myre, 2d Lt. Wm. Wagner, 3d Lt. Robert S. Blake. Officers and pri- 
vatGs 3 

First Slate Troop, Captain Thomas F. Betton; 1st Lt. R. W. Dunlap, 
2d Lt. James Coffin. Officers and privates, 38. 




Brigade Band. 

Jackson Artillery , Captain Hubeli; 1st Lt. I. R. Diller, 2d Lt. Mc- 
Avoy. Officers and privates, 45. 

Frankford Artillery , Capiain Petchell; 1st Lt. Pugh, 2d Lt. Duffield, 
Sd Lt. Irwin. Officers and privates 51. 

Montgomery Guards, Captain Potts. Officers and privates, 41. 

Regimental Band. 

Germantown Blues , Captain John D. Miles; 1st Lt. Edmund Bock- 
ius in command; 2d Lt. Wm. R. Cox. Officers and privates, 50. 

Roxborough Volunteers, Captain Charles T. Jones; IstLt. Ripka. 
Officers and privates, 29. 

Monroe Guards, Captain William F. Small; 1st Lt. Wilson in com¬ 
mand; 2d Lt. Emory; 3d Lt. Haines. Officers and privates, 32. 

National Blues, Captain George W. South ; 1st Lt. Smith. Offi¬ 
cers and privates, 25. 

Philadelphia Light Guards, Captain Bennett, 1st Lt. Higgs. Offi¬ 
cers and privates, 38. 

Washington Rifle , Captain Baumgard; 1st Lt. Slenner, 2d Lt. Eggle- 
ton. Officers and privates, 49. 

German Independent Battalion, 

Major, Frederick Dithmar; Adjutant, Samuel Lehr; Quarter Master, 
J. B. Hartmann; Surgeon, R. B. Heintzelmann, 4. 

Music of the Battalion consisting of 20. 

Philadelphia Artillery, Captain W. V. Wicht, 2d Lt. H. B. Von- 
essen. Officers and privates, 36. 

Union Grays, Captain J. Streeper, 2d Lt. J.Streeper. Officers 
and privates, 22. 

Philadelphia Cadets , Captain George White, 1st lA. John Mutz; 2d 
Lt. Jacob Mayer; 3d Lt. Robert Harvey. Non-commissioned officers 
and privates, 32. 

Battalion Band. 

German Washington Volunteers , Captain Samuel Heintzelmann; 1st 
Lt. Charles Sauser; 2d Lt. Philip Blaess. Officers and privates, 40. 

German Washington Light Infantry, Captain F. W. Binder; 1st 
Lt. Gustav Stubchen; 2d Lt. C. Kreschmar. Officers and privates, 23. 

German TV. National Guards, Captain John Ries; 1st Lt. Anton 
Wagner. Officers and privates, 36. 

German W. Yagers , Captain Carl Dithmer; 2d Lt. F. Zimmerman. 
Officers and privates, 32. 

Montgomery Battalion , Major Flanagan, Adjutant John Marlow. 

Battalion Band. 

Montgomery Guards, 1st Company, Captain Vandyke; Lieutenants 
Coyle and Riley. Officers and privates, 41. 

2 d Company, Captain McGeoy, Lt. Timmins. Officers and pri¬ 
vates, 33. 

Sd Company , Lt. Williams. Officers and privates, 44. 































































































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